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Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by runamuck »

oxalorg wrote: post #38
donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

Exactly this. My entire website is handcrafted, and not once but over the last decade almost ~10 times. It's fun and I almost end up revamping something every year. Everything handcrafted: - the matrix js code on home page. https://oxal.org click on the matrix for a surprise! - it's built using my own Static Site Generator: https://github.com/oxalorg/genox - my website uses a css theme, again handcrafted: https://git…

The floating robot makes me smile. Reminds me of 90s silliness. I love it!

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

#52

Post by sli »

donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

I spent far more time writing my own generator with Babashka than I have putting actual content on the site. I was almost disappointed when I finished it. It doesn't support compiling stuff like TS or Elm, but the only JS on my site is a console.log that says there's no other JS on the entire site.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

#53

Post by dguest »

dominiwe wrote: post #31
kapitanjakc wrote: post #4

I don't have a personal site yet. But when I do, I plan to make it with HTML+CSS+JS/JQ only Maybe apache or nginx as webservers host it on shared stuff or AWS free tier I just need to figure out how to center a div, and then I'll be in the business.

I did the same: https://domi.work/ And it's also ugly :)

I love this:

- Most of it is CSS, which when removed still produces a pretty functional website.

- Most of the CSS is just one (commented out) background image

- There are about 5 lines of java script, which seem to just exist to obfuscate your email.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

#54

Post by henrebotha »

donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

I'm spending more time than I'd like to admit thinking about how to achieve various ends using AsciiDoc(tor). I could just carry on with Jekyll, but why?

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by AndrewStephens »

donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

> For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part?

I have a server to serve my website and a website to have something for my server to do.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by [deleted] »

donatj wrote: post #2

Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? It's like maintaining a classic car. You can buy a reliable dec…

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Re: My website is ugly because I made it

#57

Post by GingerMidas »

IshKebab wrote: post #40
mcdonje wrote: post #18

The pic of the ugly site looks like it's full of blog posts, but this post is on a different site for some reason. I would've rather been sent to the ugly site if it doesn't have marketing cookies and a membership popup.

Yeah presumably because the ugly site has an awful background and poor font/colour choices that make it kind of hard to read. E.g. https://taylor.town/wealth-000 I made my website myself too and it isn't ugly. This guy's website is ugly because he decided to make it ugly out of some misguided sense of self-importance.

Self-important - sure, the author says as much themselves.

But how is it misguided? OP is having fun on their personal site. Where would you guide them instead?

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

#58

Post by dominiwe »

dguest wrote: post #53
dominiwe wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did the same: https://domi.work/ And it's also ugly :)

I love this: - Most of it is CSS, which when removed still produces a pretty functional website. - Most of the CSS is just one (commented out) background image - There are about 5 lines of java script, which seem to just exist to obfuscate your email.

Wow, I completely forgot about that image! Thank you for reminding me (it is now gone).

It was an experiment a while back and it was inline in order to keep it all in one file. Actually that made me realize, my site is dynamic: Because I edit this one html file live on the server to make changes, whoever loads my website repeatedly while I'm doing that is going to see changes live.

Re: My website is ugly because I made it

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Post by bru »

nemomarx wrote: post #39
jbd0 wrote: post #35

It's ugly because an "accept cookies" pop-up obscures half of the page.

that's on the blogging site - the actual Taylor.town doesn't have that. I'm not sure why the author hosts their blog posts on this platform and not their own website though

Just this one article, as part of the magazine. Most are directly on his website.
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